Improvement in table-casters



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N. PLYM PTON & C. H. LATHAIVL;

Table-Caster.

N0. 21L780 Patented Jan. 28. 1879 N-FETERS, PHOTD-LITHOGHAPHER,WASHINGTON. D c.

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N.PLYM PTON' & 0.11. LATHAM. Table-Caster;

Patented Jan. 28,1879.

N. PETERS. PHOTO-UTHOGRAPMER, wAsHmGTuNl D: c.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

NATHANIEL PLYMPTON, OF BOSTON, AND CYRUS H. LATHAM, OF LOWELL,MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT lN TABLE-CASTERS,

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 2 11,780. datedJanuary 28, 1879; application filed July 1, 1878.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, NATHANIEL PLYMP- TON,ofBoston, county of Suffolk, and CYRUS H. LATHAM, of Lowell, in thecounty of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Table-Casters, of which the following isa description The object of our invention is to make an ornamental andcheap table-caster or bottleholder having a base, upon which the cruetsstand, which is not liable to be stained or corroded by the acids heldin the caster; and it consists in combining with the metal frame amineral base which is not affected by the action of such acids as areusually held in the caster, and it also consists in the novelarrangement whereby a solid or continuous baseplate is united with therings of such holder when the rings are formed of wire, substantially ashereinafter described.

By a mineral base, one of a non-metallic charactersuch as tile,porcelain, earthware, or of a vitreous character.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of our improvedcaster. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion of the center-piece andradial arm 5 and Fig. 3 shows another form of the caster.

A represents the handle. The several wires which are united to form thehandle are separated at or near the center-piece b, and these ends arecarried outward radially between the rings of the caster and bent inwardunder the center-piece, as shown in Fig. 2.

B 13 represent the rings. These rings are made of wires separate fromthe wires which form the handle, and a portion of each wire ring restsupon the center-piece b, and is firmly held thereto by a thin metallicstrap, 0, which passes under the center-piece with its ends bent overand around the wire rings on the top of the center-piece. Thiscenter-piece serves to hold the rings firmly together, and sustains theweight of the caster by means of the radial arms a when it is lifted.

1) represents the base of the caster, upon which the cruets stand.Heretofore metallic bases have been used in table-casters; but thesemetallic bases are expensive and are easily stained, and are liable tobe injured from corrosion by the acids held in the caster which arespilled upon it, and they require constant labor and care to keep themclean. The non-metallic base, on the contrarysuch as porcelain, earthenware, or similar materialis much cheaper, and is not stained orcorrodedby the acids in the caster, and is kept clean with much less labor andcare. This base 1) is held in position by the wires which form therings, one wire of two adjacent rings being separated after being unitedto form the legs F F, and being bound firmly around the periphery orouter edge of the base-plate, as shown in Fig. 1. One portion of thefeet E E forms a bracket, 0, upon which the base rests.

Fig. 3 shows another method of holding the base, wherein the wires ofthe legs are bent over the top of the base instead of around its outeredge.

In order to give the frame greater stiffness and solidity an uprightwire brace, Cr, may be used, extending upward through the base andcenter-piece and having the wires of the handle firmly twisted aroundit. This brace G gives the frame great firmness and strength andprevents any lateral bending or yielding of the frame.

WVe claim as new and of our invention- "'1. In combination with themetallic frame of a caster or bottle-holder, a non-metallic base, uponwhich the bottle rests, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of the wire rings 13 B with the solid base D, uponwhich the bottle" rests, substantially as described.

3. In combination with the base and rings of a caster or bottle-holder,the center-piece b and handle A, the latter having the ends of the wiresof which it is formed bent outward,

around and under the center-piece b, as and for the purpose set forth.

4. The combination of the handle A, centerpiece I), and solidbase D withthe upright brace Gr, substantially as described.

5. The combination of the vitreous or tile base of the holder D and themetallic rings 13 B, substantially as described.

NATHL. PLYMPTON.

C. H. LATHAM.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL W. TUCKER, HENRY FR. WELcH.

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